I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing. - Miranda July

I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.